joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
 Free trial for 30 days
   jwSpamSpy
Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: ANAN <id_606060d@voila.fr>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 04:40:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: OK.IDRIS ANAN.


Dear,How are you?I hope you are very fine with your family.Recieve my mail,i am working in the ministry of mining in Burkina Faso,The president of Liberia been Charles Talor,then he deposited gold in our ministry in the year 2001 which one turn and he has a trustee from the ministry,the man who is incharge of this in the ministry are moving to liberia 2003 to see the president and the man was shoot by the rebels with the trustee of Charles Talor.Now there is no one to come and claim the treasure from the ministry,now the Charles Talor himself has problem with UN government he is now in prison,so if you are interested in my proposal then you contact me through the email i used to sent to you my proposal.This is the value of the gold 22 krat while the prize i will give to you one kilo is 11,500 dollars then if you want us to do it as bases i give 25% percent from the total of the treasure you will be recieved.Secret is the success of the transactionThank
you 
MR IDRIS ANAN



Anti-fraud resources: